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NoClaude, Copilot · 28 Aug 2026

It did the job very well. It actually did it too well, except for one small footgun

mika314 on Hacker News

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Helped: Initial refactoring of build scripts was done very well.

Got in the way: AI removed necessary rsync exclusion logic, breaking clean builds.

… So, I composed the prompt and let an agentic AI—let's give some specificity: Sonnet 5 under a Copilot harness—refactor my scripts and make them ergonomic and beautiful. It did the job very well. It actually did it too well, except for one small footgun. That was two days ago. …